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Map of whole French Possessions and Colonies

The French colonial empire is the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 17th century to the late 1960s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was one of the largest in the world, behind the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Spanish Empire: it extended over 12,898,000 km² (4,980,000 sq. miles) of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s. The French colonial empire was the largest empire in 17th century and the Second Empire in 1929. Including metropolitan France in 1929, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached 13,018,575 km² (5,020,000 sq. miles) but 13,518,575 km² if we count Fezzan captured by Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque for Charles de Gaulle, at the time, which is 8.7% (or 9% with Fezzan) of the Earth's total land area. Its influence made French a widely spoken colonial European language, along with English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

France began to establish colonies in North America, the Caribbean and India, following Spanish and Portuguese successes during the Age of Discovery, in rivalry with Britain for supremacy. A series of wars with Britain during the 18th century and early 19th century, which France lost, ended its colonial ambitions on these continents, and with it is what some historians term the "first" French colonial empire. In the 19th century, France established a new empire in Africa and South East Asia. Some of these colonies lasted beyond the invasion and occupation of France by Nazi Germany during World War II. At present France possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone to the world just after the USA, it measures approximately (11,351,000 km²/4,383,000 mi²).

Here is a list of all the countries that were part of the French colonial empires in the last 500 years, either entirely or in part, either under French sovereignty or as mandate or protectorate.

In Europe[link]

The 130 French Départements in 1811

Illyrian Provinces

Flag of French Protectorate of Saar

• France (486-)
  • The Free Republic of Vercors (1944) (Republic established against Vichy France and Nazi Germany)

• Albania
  • Autonomous Albanian Republic of Korçë (Allied state established in 1916 by the local French forces) (1916–1920)
• Principality of Andorra (1806–1814) (the French President is Co-Prince of Andorra)
• Austria
  • The French occupied zone in Austria (15.8% of the current country) (1945–1956)
• Belgium (1703–1706) (1745–1748) (1795–1814)
• Croatia
  • Illyrian Provinces :
    • The eleven French departments of Croatia (1808–1813) (Adelsberg, Bouches-du-Cattaro, Croatie, Dalmatie, Fiume, Gorice, Laybach, Neustdat, Raguse, Trieste, Willach)
• Greece
  • The three French departments of Greece (1.75% of the current country) (1797–1802) (Corcyre, Ithaque, Mer-Égée)
  • Kastelorizo Island (1915–1920)
  • Fort Navarin, in Pylos (1828–1833)
  • Ionian Islands (1807-1809)
• Italy (1805–1814)
  • Kingdom of Naples (1285-1309) by Charles I of Naples
  • Town of Venice (1866)
  • The fifteen French departments of Italy (26.5% of the current country) (1802–1814) (Doire, Marengo (department), Pô (department), Sésia, Stura, Tanaro, Apennins, Gênes, Montenotte, Méditerranée, Ombrone (department), Taro (department), Tibre, Trasimène)
• Germany
  • Town of Kehl (French administration for seven years to prevent possible German attacks after the WWI) (1918–1925??) (1946–1953)
  • The Confederation of the Rhine (1806–1813) (Around thirty German German States)
  • The French Zone of Occupation in Germany (15.7% of the current country) (1945–1956)
  • The French Protectorate of Saar (protectorate) (0.71% of the current country) (1920–1935) (1947–1956)
• Guernsey (1204–1205) (1205–1206) (1338–1340) (1372–1373)
  • Hauteville House^[1]
• Jersey (1204–1205) (1205–1206) (1380–1382) (1461–1468) (1781 - Battle of Jersey)
• Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1792–1793) (1795–1814)
• Malta (1798–1800)
• The rock of Monaco (1793–1814)
• Netherlands (1795–1810)
  • Curaçao (1713)
  • Sint Eustatius (1625) (1689–1690) (1781–1784) (1795–1801)
• Poland
  • The Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815)
• Portugal (1807–1810)
• Spain (1808–1813)
  • Canary Islands (1402-1418)^[2]
  • The four French departments of Spain (6% of the current country) (1812–1814) (Bouches-de-l'Èbre, Montserrat, Sègre, Ter)
• Switzerland (1798–1813)
• United Kingdom (1066)(1216-1223)
  • British overseas territories
    • St Helena
      • The French domains of St Helena (1858- ) (The House of Longwood, The Valley of the Grave, Pavilion des Briars is 0,15 km ²)^[3]
    • Turks and Caicos Islands (1753–1754) (1778) (1783)
    • Falkland Islands (1764–1767)
    • Montserrat (1667) (1782–1784)
• Vatican
  • The French domains of Vatican (Five churches and their dependence : St Louis des Français, La Trinité des monts, St Nicolas des Lorrains, St Yves des Bretons, St Claude des Francs-comtois de Bourgogne. Then, 13 Residential properties in Rome and one building and about hectares of lands to Lorette)^[4]

In the Americas[link]

This map shows the Louisiana Purchase area, which corresponds approximately with colonial French Louisiana.

Map Of New France

Taken up the Louisiana by La Salle in the name of the kingdom of France

• Dominican Republic (1795–1809)
• Canada
  • New France (1534–1763), lands all around :
    • Acadia (1604–1713)
    • Newfoundland
    • Hudson Bay
    • Saint Lawrence River
    • Great Lakes
    • Lake Winnipeg
    • Quebec
• United States
  • The Fort Saint-Louis (Texas) (1685–1689)
  • Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (1650–1733)
  • Fort Caroline in French Florida (occupation by Huguenots) (1562–1565)
  • French Louisiana (23.3% of the current country) (1764–1804) (sold by Napoleon I)
    • Lower Louisiana
    • Upper Louisiana
  • Louisiana (New France) (1672–1764)
• Brasil
  • France Équinoxiale (Bay of São Luis) (1610–1615)
  • The island of Saint Alexis (1531)
  • The Territory of Amapá (1897) (disputed Franco-Brazilian territory resolved in favour of Brazil)^[5]
  • The city of Viçosa-Ceará (Territory of Ibiapaba) (1590–1604)
  • France Antarctique, to Fort Coligny ( Rio de Janeiro Bay) (1655–1660)
  • Fernando de Noronha's island (1736-1737)
• Mexico
  • The Republic of Sonora (1853–1854) (Establishes a republic for the mining of ores)
  • Mexico City (1863–1867)
  • The Second Mexican Empire (1861–1867) (French expedition which ended in the implementation by Napoleon III of a European Emperor, favourable to France (Maximilian I of Mexico)
• Haiti (1627–1804)
• French Guiana (1643- )
• Suriname
  • Tapanahony (District of Sipaliwini) (Controversial Franco-Dutch in favour of the Netherlands) (25.8% of the current territory) (1814)
• Guadeloupe (1635- )
• Îles des Saintes (1648- )
• Marie-Galante (1635- )
• la Désirade (1635- )
• Martinique (1635- )
• Clipperton Island (1711- )
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1604- )
• Collectivity of Saint Martin (1624- )
• Saint Barthélemy (1648-1784, 1878- )
• Dominica (1625–1814)
• Nevis (1782–1784)
• Grenada (1650–1762, 1779–1783)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1779–1783)
• Saint Christopher Island (1628–1690, 1698–1702, 1706, 1782–1783)
• Antigua (briefly)
• Saint Lucia (1650–1723, 1756–1778, 1784–1803)
• Guyana (1782–1784)
• Tobago (1666–1667, 1781–1793, 1802–1803)

In Africa[link]

The pith helmet (in this case, of the Second French Empire) is an icon of colonialism in tropical lands

Map of French colonies in Africa (in pink)

Photo of the famous French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza who would have conquered without firing a single shot, a territory which included the Gabon, Central African Republic and Republic of the Congo

[edit] French North Africa

• French Morocco (1912–1956) (protectorate) (89% of the current territory) (now Morocco)
• French Algeria (1830–1962) (Now Algeria)
  • Oran (department) (1848–1962)
  • Constantine (department) (1848–1962)
  • Alger (department) (1848–1962)
  • French colony of El Kala (1560–1829)
• Egypt (ownership (1798–1801)) (financial Condominium of France and the United Kingdom) (1876–1882)^[6]
• French Tunisia (1881–1956) (protectorate) (Now Tunisia)
  • French naval Base at Bizerte (1956-1963) ^[7]

• Libya
  • Fezzan (1943–1951) (administration given by the UNO after its conquest by Charles de Gaulle)

[edit] French West Africa

• Ivory Coast (1843–1960)
• Senegambia and Niger (1902-1904)
• Dahomey or French Dahomey (now Benin) (1883–1960)
  • Independent of Dahomey, under French protectorate in 1889
  • Porto-Novo (protectorate) (1863–1865, 1882)
  • Cotonou (protectorate) (1868)
• French Sudan (now Mali) (1883–1960)
• Guinea or French Guinea (1891–1958)
• Mauritania (1902–1960)
  • Adrar emirate (protectorate) (1909)
  • The Taganit confederation's emirate (protectorate) (1905)
  • Brakna confederation's emirate (protectorate)
  • Emirate of Trarza (protectorate) (1902)
• Niger (1890–1960)
  • Sultanate of Damagaram (Zinder) (protectorate) (1899)
• Senegal (1677–1960)
• French Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) (1896–1960)
• French Togoland (1918–1960) (formerly a German colony, mandate became a French colony) (now Togo)
• Nigeria
  • The Enclaves of Forcados and Badjibo (territory under a lease of 30 years) (1900–1927)
  • The Emirate of Muri (Northeast of Nigeria) (1892–1893)
• Gambia
  • Albreda (1681–1857)
  • Kunta Kinteh Island (1695-1697-1702)

[edit] French Equatorial Africa

• Chad (1900–1960)
• Oubangui-Chari (currently Central African Republic) (1905–1960)
  • Dar al-Kuti (protectorate) (1897) (in 1912 its sultanate was suppressed by the French)
  • Sultanate of Bangassou (protectorate) (1894)
• The Republic of Congo or French Congo (1875–1960)
• Gabon (1839–1960)
• French Cameroon (91% of current Cameroon) (1918–1960) (formerly a German colony, Mandate, Protectorate then French Colony)
• Congo Free State (This is not a colony but it is probable that Leopold II of Belgium might have handed it over)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (1709)

[edit] French East Africa

• Eritrea (1838–1853) (at the beginning of colonization by naval officer who stopped following a diplomatic dispute between France and England)^[8]
• Madagascar (1896–1960)
  • Kingdom of Imerina (protectorate) (1896)
• Mauritius (1715–1810) (Formerly Île-de-France Island)
• Djibouti (French Somaliland) (the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas) (French Somalia) (1862–1977)
• Mayotte (1841- )
• Seychelles (1756–1810)
• Chagos Archipelago (1721–1745)(1768–1814)
• The Scattered Islands (Bassas da India, Europa Island, Juan de Nova Island, Glorioso Islands, Tromelin Island)
• Comoros (1866–1975)
• Réunion (1710- )

In Asia[link]

Map Of French Colony in India

Map of French Mandate of Syria

Zones of French and British influence and control established by the Sykes-Picot Agreement

• French Indochina
  • French Indochinese Union (1887–1954)
    • Laos (protectorate) (1893–1954)
    • Cambodia (protectorate) (1863–1954)
    • Vietnam
      • Cochinchina (South Vietnam) (1858–1954)
      • Annam (French protectorate) (1883–1954)
      • Tonkin (protectorate) (1884–1954)
      • Spratly Islands (1887–1954)
      • Paracel Islands (1887–1954)
• Thailand
  • Eastern Thailand (under French sphere of influence during French Indochina)^[9]
• India
  • French India
    • Arkat (protectorate) (1692–1750)
    • Madras (1746–1749)
    • French Establishments of India (included 5% of current Indian territory, and the French zone of influence extended to 30% of the territory)
      • Pondichéry (1765–1954)
      • Karikal (1725–1954)
      • Mahé (1721–1954)
      • Yanaon (1816–1954)
      • Chandernagor (1673–1954)
      • Trincomalee (1782–1784)
• Taiwan
  • The city/port of Keelung (1884–1885)
  • Pescadores Islands (1885)
• Turkey
  • The Province of Cilicia (incorporated into the French Mandate of Syria) (1919–1922)
• Philippine
  • Basilan (1845–1846)
• China
  • The territory of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan (integrated into French Indochina) (1898–1946)
  • The foreign concessions : French Concession of Shanghai (1849–1946), Tianjin (1860–1946) and Hankou (1898–1946)
  • The Spheres of French influence officially recognized by China on the provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong
  • Shamian Island (1859-1949) (2/5 of Island)
• Israel
  • The French Domains of Israel (L'Eléona, crossed commanderie of Abou Gosh, Tombeau des Rois, Church of Sainte-Anne)^[10]
• Lebanon or French Lebanon (1920–1943) (French Mandate of Lebanon)
  • Mount Lebanon (1860-1864) (An international protocol fixes the autonomy of the mount Lebanon under the protection of France)^[11]
• Syria (1920–1946) (French Mandate of Syria)
  • Alawite State (1920–1936)
  • State of Aleppo (1920–1924)
  • State of Jabal Druze (1921–1936)
  • State of Damascus (1920–1924)
  • Sanjak of Alexandretta (now part of Turkey)
  • State of Greater Lebanon (now part of Lebanon) (1920–1946)
• Yemen
  • The peninsula of Cheikh Saïd (1868–1869) (territory in the Cheikh, purchase by a French based company never completed - no official claim to jurisdiction. Yemen's sovereignty was confirmed by France in 1939.)^[8]

In Oceania[link]

Picture about all French flags in Polynesia

Flag of Anglo-French joint Naval

Flag of the Alo/Tu`a chiefdom

Flag of the Sigave chiefdom

Flag of the ʻUvea chiefdom

• French Polynesia
  • Society Islands (became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880)
    • Otaheiti, known as Tahiti (protectorate) (1842–1880)
    • Raiatea and Tahaa (protectorate) (1880)
  • Tuamotu Archipelago
  • Marquesas Islands (under French control in 1870, and later incorporated into the territory of French Polynesia)
  • Gambier Islands
    • Mangareva (protectorate) (1844)
  • Austral Islands
    • Rurutu (Austral Islands) (protectorate) (1858–1889)^[12]
• Papua New Guinea
  • New Ireland (1880–1882) (attempt at colonization, unofficial)
• New Caledonia (1853-)
  • Chesterfield Islands
  • Matthew and Hunter Islands
  • Loyalty Islands
  • Île des Pins
• Hawaiian Islands (1837) (at the beginning of French presence but the USA obliged by the strength, company of marine, the local Queen to treat that with them)
• The New Hebrides (now Vanuatu)
  • in French Protectorate (1887–1906)
  • in (Condominium (international law) Fr/UK) (1906–1980)
• Australia
  • Dirk Hartog island (1772) (made an unofficial annexation for all Australia)^{[13][dubious – discuss]}
• Wallis and Futuna (1887-)
  • Kingdom of Uvea (Wallis and Futuna) (declared to be a protectorate by King of Uvea and Captain Mallet in 1842. Officially in a treaty becomes a French protectorate in 1887 until 1917 when it got annexed)
  • Kingdom of Sigave (signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate in 1888 until annexed in 1917)
  • Kingdom of Alo (Wallis and Futuna) (signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate on in 1888 until annexed in 1917)

In Antarctica[link]

Territory claim by France in Antarctic (Adélie Land)

Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands

• French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF)
  • Crozet Islands (1772-)
  • Kerguelen Islands (1893-)
  • Île Amsterdam (in 1843 but abandoned) (1892-)
  • Île Saint-Paul (in 1843 but abandoned) (1892-)
  • Banc du Geyser
  • Adélie Land (1840-) (Sheltering one of two French Bases in Antarctica - the other one being Franco-Italian - has borders the Australian Antarctic Territory on both sides and divides it into two)

See also[link]

• French Colonial Empire
• Overseas departments and territories of France
• CFA franc
• Francization
• Franco-Trarzan War of 1825
• French colonial forces
• French colonisation of the Americas
• French Colonial Union
• French Equatorial Africa
• French West Africa
• Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
• Guangzhouwan a small French territory in China
• French colonial flags
• List of North American cities by year of foundation
• Former colonies and territories in Canada
• Timeline of the colonization of North America

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://www.worldstatesmen.org/COLONIES.html (English)
• http://www.stratisc.org/pub_mo2_NIEDCOLONI.html (French)
• http://www.francedownunder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=134 (French Forum)
• http://www.maranhao.fr/index_0.php (French)
• http://www.herodote.net/histoire/evenement.php?jour=15551110 (French)
• http://www.mgm.fr/PUB/Mappemonde/M488/m2_8.pdf (French)
• http://www.topdobrasil.com.br/histoire/france-antarctique/france-antarctique.php (French)
• http://www.grandquebec.com/quebec-et-monde/france-antarctique/ (French)
• http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109516t (French)
• http://fan2figs.blog4ever.com/blog/lire-article-226522-1184741-le_reve_de_la_france_antarctique.html (French)
• http://www.liv.ac.uk/frenchbooksonindia

v t e French overseas empire Former v t e Former French colonies in Africa and the Indian Ocean Maghreb Algeria Morocco Arguin Island Tunisia French West Africa Côte d'Ivoire Dahomey French Sudan Guinea Mauritania Niger Senegal Upper Volta   French Togoland James Island Albreda French Equatorial Africa Chad Gabon Middle Congo Ubangi-Shari French Cameroons French Comoros Anjouan Grande Comore Mohéli   French Somaliland (Djibouti) Madagascar Ile de France French Seychelles v t e Former French colonies in the Americas New France 1655–1763 Acadia Louisiana Canada Terre Neuve Inini Berbice Saint-Domingue Haiti Tobago Virgin Islands France Antarctique Equinoctial France French West India Company v t e Former French colonies in Asia and Oceania French India Chandernagor Coromandel Coast Madras Mahé Pondichéry Karaikal Yanaon Indochinese Union Cambodia Laos Vietnam Annam Cochinchina Tonkin Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, China French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon State of Syria Aleppo Damascus Alawite State Greater Lebanon Jabal al-Druze Sanjak of Alexandretta Oceania New Hebrides Vanuatu France–Asia relations French East India Company Present v t e Overseas departments and territories of France   Inhabited areas Overseas departments1 French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Réunion Mayotte2 Overseas collectivities French Polynesia St. Barthélemy St. Martin St. Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna Special status New Caledonia   Uninhabited areas Pacific Ocean Clipperton Island French Southern and Antarctic Lands Île Amsterdam Île Saint-Paul Crozet Islands Kerguelen Islands Adélie Land Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean Banc du Geyser4 Bassas da India4 Europa Island4 Glorioso Islands3, 4, 5 Juan de Nova Island4 Tromelin Island4, 5 1 Also known as overseas regions 2 Claimed by Comoros 3 Claimed by Madagascar 4 Claimed by Seychelles 5 Claimed by Mauritius

v t e Overseas departments and territories of France   Inhabited areas Overseas departments1 French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Réunion Mayotte2 Overseas collectivities French Polynesia St. Barthélemy St. Martin St. Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna Special status New Caledonia   Uninhabited areas Pacific Ocean Clipperton Island French Southern and Antarctic Lands Île Amsterdam Île Saint-Paul Crozet Islands Kerguelen Islands Adélie Land Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean Banc du Geyser4 Bassas da India4 Europa Island4 Glorioso Islands3, 4, 5 Juan de Nova Island4 Tromelin Island4, 5 1 Also known as overseas regions 2 Claimed by Comoros 3 Claimed by Madagascar 4 Claimed by Seychelles 5 Claimed by Mauritius

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Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is a British writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an author and broadcaster. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society^[1] and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.^[2]

Education[link]

Meades was born in Salisbury Wiltshire, and educated at King's College, an independent school in the market town of Taunton in Somerset. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1968.^[3]

Food writing[link]

Meades wrote reviews and articles for The Times for many years, and was specifically the restaurant critic of The Times newspaper between 1986 and 2001.^[4] He was voted Best Food Journalist in the 1999 Glenfiddich Awards.^[5] Having given up food writing in 2001 after being the Times restaurant critic for 15 years in an interview with Restaurant magazine, Meades estimated that he put on 5 lb a year during his reviewing period, which works out around an ounce per restaurant. By his own admission in the series Meades Eats, after being pronounced 'morbidly obese' he subsequently managed to lose a third of his body weight over the course of a year.

Television work[link]

He is well known to British television audiences for his series about architecture Abroad in Britain and its sequels Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades, Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades, Abroad Again in Britain and Abroad Again.^[6] These innovative, "slightly bonkers" documentaries^[7] look at neglected forms of British architecture such as caravan parks and golf courses, and at the place that famous buildings hold in the British popular imagination. Meades' television work also includes two separate one-off documentaries about the architectural legacy of both the Third Reich, Jerry Building, and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, Joe Building.

Meades also wrote and presented a documentary called Surreal Film (2001) for BBC Two (although the onscreen title was "tvSSFBM EHKL", the words encoded in appropriately surreal fashion),^[8] which sought to expound on surrealism in a manner that fitted the subject. Perhaps inevitably, given Meades' approach and his choice of topic, some found it bewildering and often psychedelic. However, it was nevertheless distinctive and humorous in a field often populated only by de rigueur and comme il faut offerings.

Jonathan Meades : Abroad Again in Britain was shown on BBC Two in May 2007.^[9] It is a sequel to his 1990s series exploring British architecture. The film examines Salisbury Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle, Cragside, Brighton Pavilion and Portsmouth Dockyard. It uses his familiar style of jaunty camera angles often showing him from behind, going down escalators, sitting on walls or even not at all as he is walking away from the camera. He talks directly to the camera and often his speeches are split up from different angles or positions. There are times of silence or with only music where shots of the building he is talking about are shown. Equally he often uses scathing remarks to criticise other buildings such as an occasion when he refers to the Millennium Dome as a "Museum of Toxic Waste".^[10]

In 2008 a two-part documentary, Magnetic North, was screened by BBC Four. In the programme, Meades celebrates the culture of Northern Europe, and wonders why the North suffers in the English popular imagination compared to the South. Meades travelled through the slag heaps of northern France, Belgian cities and to the redlight district of Hamburg, musing on the architecture, food and art of the places in which he finds himself.^[11] The programme features the expected stylistic flourishes and quirks of presentation now associated with him. It was subsequently re-edited into four half-hour episodes and shown on BBC Two. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, James Walton praised the programme as "Sparkling, thought-provoking, constantly challenging the accepted view, Meades seemed at times inspired, at others deranged. The only thing he never was, thank heaven, was obvious."^[11]

A 9-DVD box set collecting his various Abroad... series was due for release in April 2008 but was then reduced to a 3-Disc "Best of..." due to licensing problems/expense of the music used in the programmes.^[12]

In 2009, Meades toured Scotland in a three part BBC Scotland series Off Kilter. He visited the Granite City (Aberdeen), the Isle of Rust (Lewis and Harris) and a number of less-renowned Scottish footballing towns, guided by his "Scotnav". Meades contributes to the United Kingdom edition of The Huffington Post. Meades book 'Museum Without Walls' is being published on the Unbound crowd-funding site.^[13]

In 2012, BBC4 screened Jonathan Meades on France, a series in which Meades visits what he calls his "second country". The first episode ("Fragments of an Arbitrary Encyclopaedia") focuses on the Lorraine region which is evoked through a miscellany of words starting with the letter V. The aim is to "explain why, although close to its eastern border, it has become the symbolic, or even mystical, heart of France and a stronghold of a romantic nationalism that is also expressed by such diverse means as typography, music, engineering, exquisite urbanism and, above all, a sensitivity to Germany's proximity." The second episode was entitled "A Biased Anthology of Parisian Peripheries" and focuses on Frenchness and its major traits. "Just a Few Debts France Owes to America" is the title of the third episode.

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Published works[link]

• This is Their Life (1979) ISBN 0-86101-045-0
• The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings (1980) ISBN 0-86101-059-0
• Filthy English (1984) ISBN 0-224-02145-1 (Short stories)
• English Extremists (Blueprint Monographs) (1988) ISBN 0-947795-68-5
• Peter Knows What Dick Likes (1989) ISBN 0-586-20148-3
• Pompey (1993) ISBN 0-09-930821-5
• Architectural Expressions (2001) ISBN 0-471-49667-7
• "The Times" Restaurant Guide 2002 ISBN 0-304-35939-4
• Incest and Morris Dancing (2002) ISBN 0-304-35938-6
• The Fowler Family Business (2002) ISBN 1-85702-904-6

A new book, "Museum Without Walls", collating his television scripts, will be published by Unbound.co.uk in Spring 2012, now that sufficient support has been garnered.^[13]

TV works[link]

• The Victorian House (1986) Channel 4
• Abroad in Britain with Jonathan Meades (1990) BBC Two
• Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades (1994) BBC Two
• Jerry Building – Unholy Relics of the Third Reich (1994) BBC Two
• Without Walls: J'Accuse – Vegetarians (1995) Channel 4
• Even Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades (1996) BBC Two
• Heart By-Pass, Jonathan Meades in Birmingham (1998) BBC Two
• Travels with Pevsner (1998) BBC Two
• Victoria Died in 1901 and Is Still Alive Today (2001) BBC Two
• tvSSFBM EHKL (2001) BBC Knowledge
• Pevsner Revisited (2001) BBC Four
• Meades Eats (2003) BBC Four
• Abroad Again in Britain (2005) BBC Four
• Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture (2006) BBC Four
• Abroad Again (2007) BBC Two
• Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North (2008) BBC Four
• Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter (2009) BBC Four
• Jonathan Meades on France (2011) BBC Four

DVD releases[link]

• The Jonathan Meades Collection DVD (2009) BBC

References[link]

External links[link]

• 'Jonathan Meades – Abroad Again' Official Website
• BBC Information
• London Books